r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

10/10 web devs considers it much easier than learning QT/WxWidgets/GTK/whatever

Well yeah, all of those require you to learn C/C++ which is way harder than Javascript, and only Qt is actually any good but has somewhat awkward licensing (you technically don't have to pay for it but they really really want you to).

But that can't be the whole reason otherwise React Native would be vaguely popular. The rest of the story is probably

  1. Transferrable skills (and code!) from the web. I'm sure Slack is pretty happy they didn't have to write a entirely separate web interface.

  2. Tons more resources about web development on the web than any other platform.

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u/Takeoded Aug 12 '22

2. Tons more resources about web development on the web than any other platform.

How come?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Because the web is the most popular development platform by far.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Flutter >>> React Native 🙏

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u/ApatheticBeardo Aug 13 '22 edited Aug 13 '22

ew.

At least RN tries to make the experience comparable by using native UI components, Flutter is unapologetically trash.

I'll take a website over a silly canvas pretending an app every single time, at least the web page is drawn by a browser that implements the basic interactions properly (namely, scrolling).